you got on my tail

Outside Prince Yan's mansion, there is little snow.

"It's...it's really cold today."

According to Bai Xuehe's instructions, Bai Fu delivered homemade painkiller ointment, and the old butler dragged him into the porter room, and politely handed him a cup of tea.

"It's not time for the prince to sleep yet." The old butler pointed out the window, "It's snowing, butler Bai has a cup of tea to warm up before going in."

"Hey, thank you." Bai Fu took the teacup and took a sip, but couldn't help frowning.

"We don't have any good things in the palace." The old housekeeper smiled shyly, "This tea is indeed a bit stale."

Bai Fu smiled politely, but still put down his teacup, the tea was really not good, at least it was more bitter than that of their Baifu.

After a while, there was a sound in front of the door. It seemed that someone was knocking on the door hastily. The old butler put down the teapot and refreshments and pointed to the door, "I'll go out and have a look."

Bai Fu nodded, put away the box and got up, ready to see the prince.

At this moment, he saw a group of people wearing black brocade robes embroidered with unicorns, with gold inlaid jade plaques hanging around their waists, walking quickly to the inner room where King Yan was.

Although Bai Fu didn't have much martial arts skills, he could barely hear those people's footsteps very lightly, so he also picked up his steps and walked towards the inner room. They hurried a few steps, and then stopped behind the flower garden in front of the inner room door.

Bai Fu gasped in fright, and hurriedly hid behind the stone pillar.

The young man in the lead took out a white handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, and the people behind him followed suit. After he was armed, he said again: "Why don't we draw lots and choose someone to go in."

"Pull it down!" The person behind him fastened the handkerchief tightly to cover his mouth and nose, "The emperor said that you have no guts, just smoke once, and you won't be addicted."

"If you're addicted to this thing, you won't be able to quit for the rest of your life." The young man shrugged and said, "Forget it, if you don't go in, you'll die. Let's go together."

After all, they continued to move forward, Bai Fu tiptoed up and continued to follow behind.

After arriving at the inner room, they immediately drove away the old butler who led the way and other servants, and knocked on the door lightly. After a while, King Yan appeared in front of the door wearing a cloak, with a sickly look on his face. He smiled, but was obviously tired.

Since he was under house arrest, Bai Fu hadn't seen King Yan, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad to see him so weak.

The young people in the lead didn't answer, just saluted loosely, then half pushed King Yan into the room, and then they closed the doors and windows tightly, so that Bai Fu could no longer be seen, only through the beige window paper, he could vaguely see Saw some smoke.

Bai Fu seemed to feel that something was wrong, he immediately put away the pain relief ointment he brought, and hurried to the Bai Mansion.

"That's it. A group of men in black have entered the palace." Standing in front of Bai Xuehe, Bai Fu eagerly spoke and gestured. Bai Xuehe was sitting on the side of the bed, half leaning on the soft pillow, and the little black snake was under the soft pillow. , showing half of her tongue limply.

"They were wearing black clothes with unicorns embroidered on the corners." Bai Fu recalled for a while, tilting his head and frowning, "The little ones thought they were Jin Yiwei, but they had never seen such a dress, they walked to the door and covered their mouths and noses. "

"Jin Yiwei can dress up so you can see." Bai Xuehe laughed angrily, and suddenly said: "You said they covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs before they entered the inner room?"

"That's right." Bai Fu nodded, put the box of pain relief ointment on the table, and said proudly, "Although they didn't wear Jinyiwei's clothes, the little ones just felt something was wrong, so they took the things away and sent them back." come out."

Then he stopped quietly, waiting for Bai Xuehe's compliment.

"Hurry up and get the car ready." Bai Xuehe seldom suppressed his smile, pointed to the wooden box beside the table and said, "Go to Prince Yan's Mansion!"

The neglected little snake poked its head out from behind the pillow, rolling its round eyes.

Bai Fu, who was not praised, was very wronged, but he still hurriedly went to the stable to get a car. Bai Xuehe didn't wear a cloak, but just put on a coat and rushed out. Bai Fu didn't know what happened, but just followed the He ordered the car to be driven fast, and countless snow flakes were drawn on the spacious and smooth road in Yishanfang.

Bai Xuehe raised the curtain of the sedan chair, and finally saw the red lantern hanging on the gate of King Yan's mansion. The lantern was half covered with snow, and the official characters "Ping An" were written in thick ink.

Right at his collar, he quickly got off the horse, holding a wooden box bestowed by the emperor in his hand, engraved with a pair of cranes on the wooden box, ready to fly.

At this moment, the wind and snow were more urgent, causing Bai Xuehe's smiling face to turn bright red. He strutted his back straight and walked towards the inner room. Before the Jin Yiwei hadn't left, groups of three or four circled around the gate of the palace.

Bai Xuehe ignored them, as if no one had entered the study where King Yan lived.

"Master Bai?" Jin Yiwei saw him coming, stepped forward to stop him, lowered his head politely, "Why are you here?"

"I'm here to deliver something for King Yan." Bai Xuehe knew that Jin Yiwei knew everything, but still deliberately laughed nervously, "You don't need to know everything about the emperor's will."

"That's why we came here." Jin Yiwei covered his mouth and nose, only showing a pair of eyebrows, "It's also the emperor's order, I hope you don't make things difficult..."

With just this one look, Bai Xuehe has already seen the timidity in his heart. Although here are all carefully selected royal guards who regard death as home, Kexitong ointment is addictive, and it is difficult to get rid of this feeling in a lifetime. It is a hundred times more difficult than death, so how can it not be daunting.

"If you hadn't made a small report and told the emperor that I had never been here, why would I need to come here late at night?" Bai Xuehe smiled, but his tone was indisputable, "Now I personally deliver the pain relief ointment Go in, you wait outside the door, if the emperor asks, just say that I came before you."

"But..." Jin Yiwei was extremely troubled.

"Don't you want to get infected with this thing too?" Bai Xuehe pointed to the study room, with a cold smile, and opened the wooden box in his hand, "This pain relief ointment is addictive, it can be said to be pervasive, but it is worth a thousand gold, Your Majesty It will be given to me, but it may not be given to you."

The night is as thick as ink, and the smoke cream is as black as ink, it is impossible to tell what it is.

The Jin Yiwei in front of him locked his eyes firmly on the bong on Bai Xuehe's waist. He was silent for a moment, and finally knocked lightly on the door three times. The Jin Yiwei inside quickly retreated as if he had been pardoned.

"Thank you."

Bai Xuehe smiled, carried the wooden box and continued to move forward, raised the hem of his clothes and knelt down in front of the door with a "dong", "See King Yan Qiansui."

There was no movement in the study, and a very deep voice came from a moment later, "Come in."

Bai Xuehe got up just now, opened the door and entered.

The study room was surrounded by purple smoke, Yan Wang Fu Jijue was sitting motionless on the grand master's chair, Bai Xuehe didn't care to salute again, he lifted the incense burner with his bare hands, grabbed a large handful of smoke paste from the wooden box and threw it into the incense burner.

After the sound of "哧" was elongated, the lavender smoke was cut off, and the strange fragrance of Xitong ointment was gradually covered by Xun Luo's domineering smoke ointment obtained from outside the Great Wall. Without saying a word, he only tried his best to signal Bai Xuehe to cover his mouth and nose with his eyes.

Xitong Ointment is different from other vaping ointments. Its smoke is very fine, penetrating into the whole body like a stream of water, and finally paralyzes the brain.

Fortunately, the Xitong ointment was not applied for a long time. After the smoke completely disappeared, Fu Jijue only coughed a few times quickly, and did not experience any more severe discomfort, but he remained motionless.

Bai Xuehe leaned forward, only to find that his hands and feet were tied to the chair, so he couldn't move and could only cough dryly.

Bai Xuehe frowned, biting the bleeding marks on his lower lip with his teeth, while patting his back for him, he untied the rope on his hands.

From the moment the rope was loosened, Fu Jijue stood up suddenly, protected Bai Xuehe in his arms, and then tightly covered his mouth and nose with his hands.

"Snow Crane." Fu Jijue said cautiously in a very soft voice, "Leave me alone, and you will go out when I let go."

"My lord, there's no need." Bai Xuehe shook him off with all his strength, with a face full of tears and laughter, "I'm fine."

"Why are you okay..." Fu Jijue was dying, but he still reprimanded him somewhat severely: "Do you know what this is..."

"Just now it was pain-relieving ointment, which can make people addicted, but I have suppressed it with other ointments." Bai Xuehe coughed a few times, half-kneeling down to untie the rope on Fu Jijue's feet, with a bitter smile: "My lord, you haven't smoked much, so there shouldn't be any serious problems. Fortunately, I came in time."

"It's nothing serious!" Fu Jijue trembled angrily, and stretched out his hands on his ankles, "This king knows exactly what this thing is, as long as you get a little bit on it, it will..."

Fu Jijue grabbed his hands suddenly, his voice trembling with excitement stopped, then he reached out his other hand to reach the waist of the person in front of him, and pulled out the rich cigarette rod engraved with gold and inlaid with precious stones.

Fu Jijue was stunned, he knew everything in an instant, but couldn't believe it.

"So don't worry about me, my lord." Bai Xuehe smiled, continued to untie the remaining ropes, then got up slowly, and poured a cup of bitter tea for Fu Jijue, "I've already been addicted to this thing, how could I become addicted again."

"So you don't want to leave whatever you say?" Fu Jijue's voice was slow, he gritted his teeth, and finally turned into a wry smile after he hated it. The tobacco rod, which was as exquisite as a handicraft, was too slender, and it looked like a section of bones in shock.

"Because you can't leave this capital at all." His voice trembled, "Xuehe, I'm sorry for you, if I hadn't persuaded you to read and write, and persuaded you to participate in Chunwei, how could things like this happen..."

"My lord, it's not what you think." Bai Xuehe interrupted him, stretched out his hand and lifted his sleeves, the wounds on his snow-white skin were criss-crossed. These wounds were not deep, but they were enough to surprise Fu Jijue to stop the topic just now.

"Xitong Ointment is indeed a pain-killing ointment, but you can get rid of it little by little." Bai Xuehe pointed at the wound and smiled, "Except for sometimes fainting, there is basically no serious problem, and I won't think about it all the time like before. It's like a walking dead."

The second time Fu Jijue couldn't believe it, he froze.

"At that time, the prince was in prison, and I was his subordinate and close friend. Of course, the emperor would let me confess." Bai Xuehe suddenly smiled, "He used many methods, beat me, and didn't give me food, but I was born a bitch. , how could you be afraid of these things?"

Bai Xuehe was beaten and scolded by the gardener and the young master of the Liu family since he was a child. It was King Yan who had been secretly encouraging him and telling him that one day he would become a master.

In this life, even if a person is destined to be a villain and a hypocrite, there must always be a time when he is upright and like a man.

Even if only once.

So he was beaten, scolded and tortured day and night in the dungeon, and he decided to grit his teeth and survive, and even made up his mind to die.

"So he forced you to use Xitong ointment, to force you to become addicted?" Fu Jijue asked, his eyes that had been weak and dull all the time showed some light, which seemed to be filled with hatred.

"Yes." Bai Xuehe lowered his head, his voice gradually began to tremble, and his face showed anxiety and shame that he hadn't experienced in 800 years, "At that time, I really wanted to die. I was smoked by pain relief ointment for seven days, and I couldn't see There was a glimmer of light, and finally the emperor threw the knife to me, looked at me and smiled, and told me to stab myself once and it would be over, and I did the same. But when the knife was inserted/into the chest, I started to be afraid, so I begged the emperor to let me live... ..."

Fu Jijue approached his body, then put his arms around his shoulders, motioned him to stop talking, and then stroked his back again and again.

"That's why my lord." Bai Xuehe was silent for a long time, and then said, "I do owe you a lot, but I'm working hard to pay it back, at least now the emperor no longer puts you under house arrest, and you are indeed not restrained by Xitong ointment."

"This king knows." Fu Jijue followed in silence, and the hatred in his eyes deepened. After a while, he asked in a deep voice: "So you provoke the emperor and the Xu family and want to let me out."

"It's not provocation." Bai Xuehe explained: "Mr. Ruan's good friend was the magistrate of Xingshan County. Before he died, he left a message leading me to investigate the coal mine."

"So the mine disaster was really caused by the Xu family?"

"I don't know." Bai Xuehe shook his head sincerely, "Before Ruan Jin died, he drew two dots on the wall with his blood. I connected them together, and I was the one who used Jin Yiwei's threat to recruit peddlers to collude confessions. I bit them to death." Half of the character Xu'."

"The second mine disaster, you were buried in the mine."

"I didn't do this." Bai Xuehe didn't have any doubts in his eyes, but was slightly excited, "Perhaps there is a treacherous party to stir up trouble, but with a traitorous party, it will make the emperor suspicious of the Xu family and King Yu. "

At this moment, Fu Jijue took a deep breath, and suddenly changed the subject: "Just now when Jin Yiwei came, the emperor became suspicious, will they go back and report?"

"No." Bai Xuehe shook his head, "They were also afraid of the painkiller ointment, and they wanted to leave a long time ago, and they all knew that I smoked this substance, so they left at ease. If they reciprocate, they will also leave without authorization."

After he finished speaking, he realized that Fu Jijue's voice had become firm and deep, sweeping away the previous tiredness.

He raised his head, with surprise on his pretty face, "My lord..."

"But have you ever thought about it! If the Xu family is eliminated because of this king, how will the war with the Turks end?" Fu Jijue's voice suddenly rose, and he grabbed his collar, and then his voice gradually sank, "Xuehe, Ben Wang thought about it for a long time, and felt that although we were innocent and wronged, we couldn't live without our family and country in our hearts."

"My lord, I have not only family and country in my heart, but also the world." Bai Xuehe's smile grew wider, the corners of his lips fluttering like spring flowers, "It's just a Turk, what if the lord leads the troops himself?"

"How is it possible?" Fu Jijue smiled wryly, then shook his head, "The emperor will never release me the military power."

"That's good." Bai Xuehe stretched out his little finger and smiled like a child, "How about I make an agreement with the prince? If one day, the emperor allows the prince to lead the army, the prince will no longer be depressed every day, and there will be no more troubles." Injustice for injustice, revenge for revenge."

Fu Jijue was stunned, and looked down at his hands. There were countless small wounds between his fingers, which were caused by years of martial arts training and being scratched by weapons.

Bai Xuehe's voice was full of temptation.

Soldiers, battles, and the true freedom of not being stared at.

"Okay." Fu Jijue finally nodded, stretched out his hand to hook Bai Xuehe's little finger, and then firmly grasped his hand, staring at those crooked eyes intimidatingly, "Anyway, you don't need Xitong ointment anymore, if it doesn't work, you must If you listen to me, leave the capital far away and never come back."

Bai Xuehe raised his head and smiled, showing a row of neat white teeth, which further accentuated the unparalleled beauty of his face, making people unable to take their eyes off it.

"My lord is wise."